The result of yet another inquisitive wizard’s combination of animal species, quillback crocodiles have long, dangerous quills on their backs and a jagged lump of fused bone on the end of its long, strong tail. Though they reproduce more slowly, they live much as their normal brethren do, though they are not quite as sluggish, being more aggressive. They are more comfortable on dry land, and can make devastating use of their sweeping tails on those who trespass against their territory. Quillback crocodiles can be seen outside their natural habitat in arenas, where they are popular bestial opponents for gladiators to fight, and as guardian beasts for the properties of reclusive landowners. Young quillbacks have soft spines for their first couple of months, and one such can net a pretty penny on the menagerie, arena or hermetic wizard marketplace, up to 1,000 gp for a healthy specimen, if its parents do not skewer and eat the would-be seller.

ANIMAL COMPANION
Quillback Crocodiles use the following statistics as animal companions.

ON PORPHYRA
Quillback crocodiles were lovingly created through magical means by the enigmatic Kadeg the Merciless, renegade wizard of the Siwath borderlands. Descendants of the original bask still live in the Oliti delta, having spread to the Pyyynian jungles and with sightings in other swampy areas where normal crocodiles are found.